Taxi! To St Barts, please!

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While our friends just left for a wedding charter on their beautiful Oyster 66 (yes, the Captain is actually going to marry the couple!), we picked up last week a honeymoon couple headed for St Barts where they wanted to spend a few days staying on shore. Since their plane was landing in St Martin, they thought that the best way to travel between islands was probably a yacht - and of course they were right.

Sailing by Tintamarre

After a rainy first night at anchor in Grand Case, the weather cleared up in the morning and we sailed to Ile Fourche under the sun and with perfect wind. A light lunch at anchor - Caribbean gazpacho with onion tartlets, a typical French Caribbean recipe - was followed by a hike up Ile Fourche. The view from the top was stunning, as the visibility was better than we had ever seen it. St Martin, Saba, Statia, St Kitts, Nevis and of course St Barts all appeared perfectly clear to the eye.

Rainbow over Ile Fourche

The night was spent by the perfect beach of Colombiers, and in the morning a squall brought us a surreal rainbow that gave us thoughts of weighing anchor to go sail under it. We dropped off our guests on St Barts before heading back to St Martin, pushed by a nice breeze at 9 knots under genoa.

Gustavia and its megayachts glistening under the sun

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